A Presumption of Death
- Author Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrator Edward Petherbridge
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Run Time 9 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Historical crime and mysteries.
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What to expect
'A must for all Wimsey lovers . . . an entertaining read' - Northern Echo
It's 1940, and while the Second World War rages on, Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in the country.
But the war has followed them: glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers, and the blackout makes the night-time lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London.
Then the village's first air raid practice ends with a very real body on the ground - and it's not a war casualty, but a case of plain, old-fashioned murder. And it's not long before a second body is found . . .
Critics Review
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She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.
P.D. James -
Miraculously right: catching precisely the tone of the relationship . . . It comes out splendidly . . . a thrilling denouement
The Times -
A must for all Wimsey lovers . . . an entertaining read which offers some longed for insight into the lives of the Wimseys after their marriage
Northern Echo -
Jill Paton Walsh does a fine job . . . she also answers an unasked question about Lord Peter and Harriet: Yes, dear readers, they have a lot of sex and they like it.
Globe and Mail, Toronto -
Vintage Wimsey . . . Wimsey lives on in delicious familiarity in this triumph not just of one writer’s art, but of two
Huddersfield Daily Examiner -
Satisfying and impeccably researched
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